Gold sourcing
Gold sourcing from Kenya, coordinated end to end
Aptus Group is a Nairobi-based trade desk that coordinates gold sourcing from Kenya for international buyers. We match a buyer's requirement to available supply, verify provenance and purity through parties the buyer can choose, assemble the export documentation, hold the material under insurance and move it to the buyer's nominated consignee.
Our position in the chain
What we do, and — just as usefully — what we do not
Buyers are misled in this sector more often by vagueness than by outright falsehood. So here is the boundary of our role, stated plainly.
What Aptus Group does
- Qualifies international buyers and completes mutual KYC before commercial terms.
- Matches a stated requirement — form, fineness, quantity, destination — to available Kenyan supply.
- Establishes and documents the provenance record for the material offered.
- Arranges independent assay, with the buyer free to instruct their own laboratory and attend sampling.
- Assembles the export file: permit, declaration, certificate of origin, invoicing, customs entry.
- Holds material in insured, access-controlled storage between verification and export.
- Coordinates specialist air freight and delivery to the buyer's nominated refinery, vault or consignee.
- Quotes against a published benchmark with a stated differential.
What we do not do
- We do not mine. We are not a producer and we do not hold mineral rights.
- We do not refine. Material requiring refining goes to an accredited refiner, not to us.
- We do not offer gold below the international benchmark, because no legitimate seller can.
- We do not take advance fees, release fees, clearance fees or cash payments of any kind.
- We do not invoice from, or receive payment into, any account other than our own registered company account.
- We do not ask a buyer to rely on an assay we control.
- We do not publish certifications, volumes, client names or accreditations we cannot evidence.
- We do not give legal, tax or investment advice, and nothing here is an offer to sell.
The commercial frame
What gets agreed in writing before anything moves
Every one of these is settled before material is committed. A transaction that leaves any of them open is not ready.
- Form and fineness
- What is being supplied and to what purity standard, and on whose assay that figure rests.
- Quantity and cadence
- The lot size, and whether this is a single transaction or a repeating requirement.
- Pricing basis
- Which published benchmark, which fixing, which pricing date, and the differential applied — stated as a formula, not a number.
- Assay and settlement
- Which laboratory, who instructs and pays it, whether settlement follows origin assay or destination outturn, the tolerance that triggers a dispute, and the umpire laboratory.
- Delivery terms
- Incoterms, where risk passes, the routing and carrier, insurance cover and whose interest is noted, and the consignee at destination.
- Exporter of record
- The named entity exporting, and the licence category and number it holds. Never left implicit.
- Payment mechanism
- The verifiable event that releases funds, and the bank accounts at both ends — in the registered names of the contracting entities.
- Governing law
- The law of the contract and the dispute forum, reviewed by each side's own counsel.
Go deeper
The detail behind each part of this
Questions
About our role
Are you a miner, a refiner or a trader?
Do you sell gold, or arrange it?
What quantities do you work with?
Next step
Looking to source gold from Kenya?
Tell us what you are looking for — form, quantity, purity and destination market — and our trade desk will tell you plainly whether we can serve it, and on what terms.
Monday to Friday, 08:00–17:00 East Africa Time (UTC+3)